New Ulm weekly review., 1887-10-19
E ARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Scraps Of Agricultural Information.

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Scraps Of Agricultural Inf0rmatiOn.
B. Few persons have a fully realizing
tsense OF value OF wood ashes. A ton
lsof we'll saved ashes contains 200
tpounds Of carbonate ofpotash, worth
.s$12, and 100 pounds of phosphoric
racid, worth $6. This phosphoric acid
emay be called insoluble, but is in an
iorganic condition and hence is worth
tmore than the mineral phosphates,
ssbecause it is more easily soluble in the
tsoil than these.
c Potatoes keep best in pits in the
. ground out of doors, where they are
Icool and moist, but they must be pre-
eserved from too low a temperature
Gby ample covering and from water by
Gchoosing an elevated dry place. To
IImake a pit dig a trench three feet wide
Ifand two feet deep, throwing the earth
ion both sides; heap the potatoes to a
tpoint or ridge and cover with long,
I straight straw, bending the straw over
2 the top. Cover eight or ten inches
deep with straw and then with three
or four inches of earth, leaving the
{ peak uncovered until cold weather,
when it, too, should be covered with
earth.
Feeding with corn fodder is danger
Gus, and more SO when a horse is
wearied with hard work in the field
When, green fodder is fed the horse
should have first a small quantity of
dry hay or cut feed only moistened
and with an ounce ofsalt mixed with it.
After the keen edge OF the hunger is
taken ,off then the fodder may be Civ
en-, and will be eaten slowly and mas.
ticated thoroughly. A we'll masticat-
ed and salivated meal will not fer
, ment In the stomach and produce
collie.
SUNNI arizing the news of theround-
ups. '"The Rocky Mountain Hus
bandman" concludes that at least
half OF the range cattle we're starved
or frozen to death last winter: ssThe
havoc was simply appalling" The
loss seems to have been principally
cows and. ninety-fve per cent of the
bulls. 1t is a sad story OF cruel suf-
tferlng wantonly imposed upon great
herds turned loose on overstocked
reaches of shelterless country with
out other provision of food than that
supplied by the bleached and often
Recovered and storm. swept natural
grasses.
A correspondent OF the Country
Gentleman writes Of Mr. J. NJ Smiths
forty-acre garden at Green Bay, Wis.
OF cabbage he has 100000. They are
going like hot cakes. this dry year, for
six cents apiece. Figure that up, you
300 acre farmers, and see if you can
come in sight of it. But that is only
half the story, for many OF these were
raised after strawberries that gave
225 bushels per acre, and all this
without any rain to speak OF! His
cash sales from the forty acres since
the 9th OF May have averaged $50
day. Is he satisfied with this? Not
a bit OF it. He says he does not be-
|lieve that even he realizes yet what
the land is capable Of doing.
1t is not a safe practice to shear
sheep in the fall where the winter is
cold and wet. The loss of the fleece is
apt to chill the sheep and cause loss
of lambs as we'll as reduce the condi-
tion or necessitate more food. 1t is
not wise to follow the California meth
Cd where the dry and mild Califor-
MIA Climatic dose not nravail and
where the winters are cold and snowy
We do not know of O. case in which
sheep have been sheared, even in the
Southern States, that has not been
found to be mistake, excepting when
the sheep are kept continually under
cover and artificially warmed.
The farm column of s"The Central
Baptist gives the appended hint
about poultry for the home table
to which might be added the advice
to keep thef fowl in confinement without
TODD for twenty-four hours before kill
ing: ''The reason poultry, killed at
home though young is not as tender as
J.. Tat bought at the market, is that the
B. :mer is generally not killed until
wanted, and when eaten is still rigid
with death, while that bought at the
poulterers has been killed at least
hours-more often DAYS. Poultry
ought to be killed several days before
being eaten, dressed at once, and, with
a few bits OF charcoal in it, hung in a
cool place."